COMING FASHIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17613, 18 January 1929, Page 5

COMING FASHIONS.

NOTES FROM PARIS. Billowing Fullness. Of first importance, I suppose, you want to know' of evening dresses. Every one has a billowing skirt with a smoothly outlined hip. You may have yards and yards of tulle—sometimes as many as thirty go to the completing of a skirt—or you have carefully cut panne or lame that runs into pounds per yard. Lame Picture Frocks. As a matter of fact gold lame with an indefinite flower pattern is the verynewest fabric for ball gowns. They are meticulously cut with a decolletage high in front and bare to the waist at the back in a slender V. The skirts are shaped with drooping sides. Vividcoloured jewellery, of which sapphires and emeralds lead, are worn with them. Sparsely Scattered Patterns. I have seen the new patterns for the spring. They are quite changed. Some of them are rather large, whilst the small flower patterns are very sparsely scattered in comparison with the closely-strewn ones of last season. The convolvulus is the favourite flower for the crepe de chines and delaines. More Wool. Another interesting point is that much more wool is going to be worn. Finely-woven, light-as-a-feather wool, delicately patterned in soft colourings, will be considered far smarter for the afternoons even than the crepe de chines and silks of yesterday. After all, there is lots of sense to this new fashion, for are there not more days in the year, both in Paris and in London, when wool is best suited to the climate than silk or cotton? Emeralds. Emeralds to-day are the stones de luxe They are quite a rage, and they incited a taste for this lovely colour again, which I should not be surprised to see much to the fore in 1929. This Christmas Bag. One last hint of the latest Rue de la Paix bags, just in case you are allowed to choose their own Christmas present. A square black pig-skin with a steel frame and an onyx acorn fastening, with an onyx monogram on the flap, is a thing to envy and to carry, 1 and incidentally to stand hard wear, whilst for evening small embroidered taffeta ones are dainty with a picture frock. One famous mondaine I saw the other day had a bag made of the same material as her frock swinging from her wrist on a fine silver chain a yard long. it almost touched the grounds as she danced.